An overnight fire in an electrical box at The Columbian shut down the company's servers but the newspaper is now on track to put out a paper on Wednesday.

Editor Lou Brancaccio said an electrical box blew up or shorted in a building at 701 W. Eighth St. that houses the newspaper's main computers. The panel, red hot and spewing smoke, was doused with sprinklers. Firefighters were called to the scene about 3:30 a.m., followed by public works officials.

No one was injured but the incident shut down the air conditioning, necessary to keep the servers running.

Brancaccio said reporters were able to post on the website by about 10 a.m. The newspaper is now bringing the servers back up by piping in air conditioning from an adjacent building into the room.

Had the fire not been put out the entire building would have come down, Brancaccio said.

No one was injured and it's not clear what caused the electrical problem.